Consciously Disciplining Yourself

Consciously disciplining your life is always beneficial. Without discipline, you are ruled by your habits and your limbic brain emotions. Exhibiting no control over such emotions places you on the same level as the beasts of the world. The phrase, “I’m only human,” is usually used to excuse irrational behavior. Are you less than ‘human’ when you consciously exhibit control over your primitive urges? Hardly. Then practice using your will power, and show yourself you have discipline.
It has been found that electrical stimulation of parts of the limbic system in the brain produces a wide range of basic emotional responses like fear, lust, anger and pleasure. Brain experiments in the 60’s with monkeys and human mental patients uncovered this fact very well. Fear, lust, anger and pleasure are the same emotions we share in common with all animals that have a limbic system.
When fear sweeps through a crowd in a burning building, it can turn into blind panic with all those that are present. When anger sweeps over a lynch mob, everyone can

Guilt Reversal Visualization

There are many reasons for guilt in a person’s mind. A fat person might feel guilty about eating chocolates. A child might feel guilty about lying to his parents. A spouse might feel guilty about an infidelity. But how do you uneat something or unsay something or undo something? You don’t. Then punishment is a natural recourse?! You either feel you must punish yourself or in some other way atone for your sin. Consequently a great deal of negative energy is built up in your mind and your desire for punishment can produce a great deal of self-recriminations in your behavior.
Get in a comfortable, relaxed position and close your eyes. Take a few deep abdominal breaths and progressively relax all parts of your body from your toes to your head. Now visualize the guilty event the way it was done. See the effect you had on other people. Get in touch with it and experience it. See yourself as others see you, not how you think they see you or how you would like them to see you. Be honest with yourself. Now change the visualization and switch the picture to see the event the way it should have been done — step by step. Instead of feeling fear, anger or resentment, experience it with love, understanding and joy. Look at it as part of the big picture of your life, not as an isolated incident.
A great deal of negative energy will be released the very first time that you do this visualization, because you are at the subjective level when you review the incident in your mind. This releasing of your guilty energy necessitates no punishment whatsoever, and the act need never be repeated. The important thing is that once you have cleaned your mental house of guilt, don’t rerun the same negative mental pictures that got you there before.

Fear Reversal Imaging

The dictionary definition of fear is a painful emotion marked by alarm, dread or anxiety. To evaluate a fear’s necessity for survival, you can use test it with the ‘fight or flight’ response. Is there protection available? Can you protect yourself by fighting? Is escape available? Can you protect yourself by running away? If you can’t justify the fear by fighting or running away, the fear is unnecessary to your survival.
Coupled with the emotion of fear are physiological responses that prepare the body for fight or flight. Muscles tense, mouth gets dry, palms sweat with nervous perspiration, gastric secretions cease, adrenalin is shot into the system, the heart beats faster and the blood pressure rises. If there is no fight or flight energy released by the body, the physiological changes can cause damage to the bodily system. Mostly this is in an accumulative way, but fear has also caused sudden psychological blindness, deafness or speechlessness, hair to turn white or even death.
Fears can be based on a negative expectation of something, sometimes accompanied by feelings of helplessness or some kind of lack. To help yourself, first identify what specifically you are fearful of. You might say you have a fear of flying, but in reality it is a fear of crashing. That is the negative expectation. How do you reverse it? You turn the negative expectation into a positive one. Do “Exercise — Relaxation For Improved Awareness” prior to this exercise. To reverse a fear of crashing in an airplane, first visualize yourself driving from your home to the airport. You feel calm as you approach the airplane and take your seat inside. See yourself smiling throughout. Everyone around you is happy and

Creating A Positive Encouragement Tape

Besides causing psychological problems, fear, guilt and shame often cause heart trouble, stomach ulcers, high blood pressure and many other bodily disorders. So how can you get a handle on these negative emotions when they pop up and rebuild your self-esteem? Listening to positive statements directed to you via a tape can provide a unique benefit to you. You can use your own voice on the tape, but when the words come from another person, they often have a better effect on you. By playing an audio tape of positive, encouraging bullet statements in the morning as you wake up or on a car cassette player or at odd times throughout the day in your home, you can successfully saturate yourself with enough positivity to counteract whatever negativity you experience throughout your day. Select a 12-minute loop tape

Positive Statement Practice

In one university study, it was discovered that people in a negative mood were more likely to believe negative things stated to them about themselves. Conversely, people in a positive mood were more prone to accept positive feedback. Since most people are exposed to more negativity during the course of a day than positivity, is there any wonder that people suffer from depression and low self-esteem at the end of a normal day? Negativity affects your physical and psychological well being, and some people get boils, colds or headaches after a serious burst of anger or hatred toward someone. Rage can even trigger a heart attack. When you look for a person’s flaws and point them out to others, this critical tendency creates distance between you and others, and makes you feel bad in the process! As an exercise, reverse this tendency of looking for flaws, and look for a person’s good points. Be generous with your compliments and praise toward others, and you’ll notice a more favorable response from people.
You must realize that your words command great power over people and yourself, and